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AECT Board of Directors
Board Meeting October 21, 2003 1:00pm-9:00pm PDT October 22, 2003 8:00am-11:00am PDT Phil Harris, Executive Director*
I. Acceptance of Agenda for October 21-22, 2003 meeting Guy Westhoff moved and Ward Cates seconded the acceptance of the agenda for
October 21-22, 2003 meeting. Motion carried II. Acceptance of Minutes for July 22-23, 2003 meeting Jim Hayden moved and, Jackie Hill seconded acceptance of the minutes for July 22-23, 2003 meeting. Motion carried. III. Acceptance of Minutes for September 11, 2003 meeting Jim Hayden moved and Ward Cates seconded acceptance of the minutes for September 11, 2003 meeting. Motion carried IV. President Report-Ed Caffarella The elections are complete but not posted on the AECT website. Each candidate needs to have short bio with their name on the website. This was the first year for the policy and there are some issues that will be dealt with over the next year or two. V. President Elect Report-Jay Harriman Several board members volunteered to write general and special session. Board members will also be hosting groups for dinner after the Roundup. Pat Miller expressed her appreciation for the planning group and their responsiveness
and hard work. The planners solicited presentations in addition to the submissions.
The planners were encouraged to follow the theme and over 500 sessions were
scheduled in varying lengths. There is a General Session each day plus special
and presidential sessions. Sessions that might be of interest to K-12 teachers
and administrators were scheduled for Friday and Saturday. A daily newsletter
will be distributed each day with the items of interests and the schedule changes.
Pat was asked to create a document detailing the planning process that will
be incorporated into the Policy & Procedures Manual. VI. Past President Report-Charlie White The out going past president addressed the Board. AECT is an international organization, but not as much as originally thought. AECT is a forgotten piece within the states educational technology thinking. The affiliated organizations are another opportunity for increased involvement. Practice will continue be an important piece in the organization. Africa is a wide-open field for exploration and involvement in educational technology and AECT. The quality of the presidential candidate pool was exceptional VII. Executive Director Report-Phil We got through the year in black. There is no reason not to promote the ISMF. There will over a thousand teachers, students, and parents. George Johnson of Information Age wants to purchase three titles for re-publication. In the last ten days, the final settlement from the Louise Benton Waggoner has arrived. Her estate was distributed over 33 organizations. The checks are in general funds. The downtown Chicago Hilton has met the $135.00 room rate and other concessions. Old Business New Business (Tuesday afternoon) VIII. Electronic services-Larry & Rick IX. Introduction of Convention Interns President Caffarella introduced the 2003 Convention Strohbehn Intern Youngmin Lee and the 2003 Convention Cochran Interns Sandie Waters, Haihong Hu, , Reo McBride, Dennis Charsky and presented each with the appropriate medallion. X. Confirmation of new ECT Foundation Trustees Cindy Elliott moved to confirm Charlie White and K.J. Saville as members of the ECT Foundation Board. Ken Harmaning seconded the motion. Motion carried. XI. Awards Chuck Stoddard moved that Charlie White receive an AECT Special Service Award and that Dick Cornell receive an AECT Distinguished Service Award. Jim Hayden second the motion. Motion carried. XII. Guidance on what meetings, special events board members should attend Board members should attend the First Timers Session, the Opening General Session, the Round Up, as many of the special and presidential sessions as possible, the NCATE/ECIT reception in the President's shared suite, the dessert reception, some of the screenings of the ISMF winners, the Change Keynote, the ISMF keynote, the Gala, and division reps will be attending the division meetings. If you see something that needs doing, jump in and help. If you notice something going real well or the needs correcting, contact Pat, Lois, or Jay. XIII. Strategic Planning and Review of Vision 2000 The ISMF has gone beyond our wildest dreams. The value added package was cut off at 300. 135 teachers are now AECT members with approximately 400 parents and 500 students attending the ISMF. Do we want continue to grow the ISMF and how will this impact the future of the association? We need to trade mark ISMF and market it as the Academy Awards of Student Produced Media. Could this be used as a way of impacting the K-12 market? The ISMF is providing an interaction with technology and learning that no other format does. Media & Technology Division was originally intended to include the Multi-media Developers. Not sure how to target the classroom teacher but it will definitely not be through the library media specialists. The vocation technology programs have the money, the equipment, and are currently doing the productions. A. Different partnerships Don Kenesick and Lesley Conner joined the Board during dinner and discussed a number of possibilities for cooperation and coordination B. Who are we? C. Where do we want to go? Don't get tied up with hot buttons. How do we maintain the eclectic nature of the organization, yet with a focus? Let's not become a niche. Many of the organizations that were formerly part of AECT no longer exist. Let's take some risks and take the opportunity to grow in new directions. The Executive Committee should be empowered to make a lot of the operational decisions and then just report to the Board. We need to become a Leadership Development organization. We need to be thinking about what kind of contribution we can make to the greater world of education. We need to a leader in the use of technology. We need to the place where people come to learn how to use the new technologies. We need to tie every decision to our mission. There is a distinction between ISTE & AECT where ISTE combines the teaching-learning process with an emphasis on the presentation where AECT focuses on the learning process and how to improve that. There is a need to streamline the mission statement with a clearer focus. We are an umbrella organization and that could be our strength. Accommodating diverse interests creates a tension within the organization. Some specialists came to AECT because other organizations did not have a place to talk about technology. Those specialty organizations now have technology strands and some of our former members don't need us any more. Let's have goals and get moving toward them. It is now time to have involvement and ownership of the organization but the members. What are our "sacred cows" and how many of them are we willing to give? Let's not focus on the accident that did not happen. AECT needs to figure out how best to serve the members of AECT. The strength of the organization is its Divisions. XIV. No Child Left Behind-Charlie Reigeluth. New Business (Tuesday evening) XV. Reprint of old AECT publications by Information Age Cindy moved, Chuck seconded, that AECT accept the proposal from Information
Age to publish three titles for $1000 each plus 5% royalty. Motion carried.
The titles are Finn, Extending Education Through Technology; Heinich, Technology
and the Management of Instruction; and Ball & Barnes, Research, Principles,
and Practices in Visual Communication. It is strongly suggested that the contract
be very tight making it clear that we are licensing him to republish the books
only. A. Electronic access to AECT resources The pilot with Korea is going very well. There is interest from the China AECT at a price of $10. We are also getting requests from libraries for electronic access. The Research Library folks could give us excellent guidance. Phil will come back with a budget and proposal. XVII. Human Capital Campaign report to the board HCC is at 134 new members. We have a small group of very loyal 52 sponsors. We need to enlarge the number of sponsors. Division representatives, please take the magnets, brochures and t-shirts to your divisions to seek new sponsors. The focus of the HCC is to retain the new members and survey what will it take to retain them.
The DDL is requesting clarification on their charge. They found out that the book will be published both electronically and in print. Because of the fluid nature of the field, should the glossary ever be in print? The publication is to be turned over to the DDL division to revise and review on an ongoing basis. The recommendation is that the definitions and glossary not ever be included in the Seals & Richey work. The DDL deadline for the revised document is 1/31/03. XIX. Future of NSBA/AECT collaboration and annual conference The NSBA will be holding a conference in Denver because of unused room blocks from Dallas. The Conrad Hilton downtown has matched the Hyatt McCormick Place offer of $135 plus additional concessions. NSBA has experienced significant losses over the last four years. There is almost no chance that NSBA will have a Fall conference after Denver. XX. TechTrends Policy - Sharon Smaldino The policy was distributed. The last sentence was added. "The content
and copy editing decisions shall be made independent of the Editorial Board."
The content is the arena of the editorial board and therefore should be included
in the content decision process. The sentence was removed. XXI. Follow-up on ETRD policy of article in press reprints for classes XXII. Electronic e-books - Mike Orey, UGA The policy should include the potential audience, technological concerns, as well as traditional content issues. XXIII. Publication proposal - Jenny Johnson Jenny Johnson proposed that data collection methods be developed on technology programs offered by 4 year colleges and the compilation be available online and on CD. The Board recommended that Jenny Johnson go back to the Curriculum Committee and work with them to come up with a product that everyone will be happy with. XXIV. Introduction of Elizabeth Boling, Ned Shaw and discussion of TechTrends Elizabeth Boling and Ned Shaw introduced the mock-up of the new TechTrends. The content of the first two issues are in place and Ned walked us through the visual vocabulary for the journal. TechTrends is one word. Essentially the design is a six-column grid. The next section is a three column for featured columns. The central articles are in a two-column format. The standard features have a distinct look with the editorial ending the publication. The Instructional Design & Technology (IDT) Record is higher education focused and is designed to be a place to exchange ideas and thinking about the field. The postings are longer than a bulletin board and shorter than an article. Recently students in a new program at Indiana University were encouraged to wrestle with their vision and where they see technology going. XXV. ISMF Report early on Tuesday John & Marilyn Connelly reported that there were over 500 entries representing
over 3400 students.
Ed's Swan Song - Thank you to the board and for the opportunity to become involved with such an association. Louise Benton Waggoner is the angel that kept AECT alive. XXVII. Passing of the Cup XXVIII. Adjourn meeting of old board at 11:10am PDT Charlie White moved that the board meeting be adjourned. Delia Neuman seconded
the motion. Motion carried. |